Questions tagged [auto-save]
The generic concept of automatically saving information to the disk or to a remote server, triggered by a timer or any other event inside of Emacs.
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Configuring dedicated directory for lock files and auto save files on MS-Windows
How do I configure a dedicated location for lock files and auto-save files that works on MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, and macOS? I'm using GNU Emacs 28.2
The following works on GNU/Linux but not on MS-...
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Save modes and properties on file basis
Files can have the same type (the same extension) and still have different kinds of contents for which I have different preferences. For instance, some text files are in English and some in Swedish, ...
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Global Auto Save Visited Mode
I can't get auto-save visited mode to work.
All I have in my config is this:
(setq auto-save-visited-mode t)
(setq auto-save-visited-interval 2)
Should I need to enable anything else to get auto save ...
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How to disable the generation of auto-save files (e.g. #file.org#, .#file.org# and file.org~)?
I'm new to Emacs and org-mode. Whenever I make changes to any org file it creates auto-save files. For example if the file I'm editing is tasks.org, it creates these files : #tasks.org#, .#tasks.org# ...
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How to never auto-save large files — or, how to run a function whenever any buffer starts — or, how to abort loading a minor mode in one of its hooks
I want to tell Emacs to never auto-save files bigger than ~1MB. I know how to turn off auto-save-mode when the file size is above a certain limit, but not how to make that function run automatically ...
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Is there a way to prevent Emacs from deleting an auto-saved file?
I frequently run shell sessions under Emacs (via C-x shell). My practice is to turn auto-saving on these shell-interaction buffers, so that the resulting (auto-saved) files serve as a persistent ...
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Permissions for Auto-Save files
I use the configuration to store auto-save files in /tmp:
(setq backup-directory-alist
`((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
`((".*&...
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How can I disable after-focus-change-function for specifc modes?
I have (setq after-focus-change-function 'xah-save-all-unsaved) in my init.el file
to run save if focus changes, Emacs: Real Automatic Save File. I want to disable this for some modes.
Is it possible ...
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How can I save all buffers on auto-save except the ones have specifc mode?
I am using following full-auto-save () (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoSave) to save all buffers on Auto-Save.
(defun full-auto-save ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(dolist (buf (buffer-...
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Still getting autosave files in the same directory as my buffer [duplicate]
I have the following in my init file:
(setq backup-directory-alist
`((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
`((".*" ,temporary-file-...
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Buffer file replaced with lockfile/backupfile location
I have been suffering this issue for a few months, unable to reproduce it until now.
In short, the issue is that when creating a new file, editing it, and then deciding to rename the file, the buffer'...
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İs there a way to revert to last hard save?
If I understand correctly M-x revert-buffer reverts to the last auto saved buffer, as explained here.
I just lost a big file (it was garbled for some reason). I opened the auto back up file but it was ...
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emacs still makes backup files even after I tell it not to [closed]
(I did restart emacs after adding config)
I'm on GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin20.5.0) of 2021-06-07
My config:
(setq make-backup-files nil)
;disable backup
(setq backup-inhibited t)...
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How to force Yes/y answer to `emacs has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway?` prompt
I am working in a git-repo using zsh shell.
On the background, git-auto-fetch plugin is running in order to automatically fetch all changes from all remotes while I am working in a git-initialized ...
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How to resolve key-binding conflict between Icicles and `super-save-mode`?
I noticed that if Icicles is loaded then super-save-mode doesn't save a buffer when you switch to another buffer, though switching frames works.
Icicles seems so technically advanced, yet there is no ...
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auto-saved files in my current working directory despite I have set it to C:\temp\emacsbackup
I have the following line in my .emacs to keep auto-saved files in a specific directory:
(setq backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "C:/temp/emacsbackup"))))
And it works, I see ...
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Each time I save a file, Spacemacs will try and parse my bibliography bibtex file. How can I stop that?
I use Spacemacs and it is great. But for some reason, each time I save a file--usually an org file, Spacemacs will try and parse my default bibtex file. And that file is relatively large, so it adds a ...
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Placing auto-saves in a different folder doesn't work
I am working on my personal emacs config and I wanted to keep .emacs.d/ uncluttered. So I created a temp folder inside .emacs.d/ that includes a backup directory. This part works fine. Also sending ...
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How to recover from a backup file
I can recover a file from an auto-save via M-x recover-this-file. So far so good.
But how can I recover a file from it's last backup (if, of course, I have switched backups on)?
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How can I make Emacs put files named like .#filename into another directory too
I want my autosave files and backup files, e.g. #filename.org# and filename.org~ files, not to clutter the directory in my code repo that is in TypeScript.
I have popped into a way to place inside ...
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quick way to restore backups
The following happens fairly often to me:
I do emacs note-xyz in the terminal to create a new note
I write something in the note
I forget to save before logging out
Now I'm left with a file #note-...
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Is it possible to auto-save a file when focus is switch to another tab?
I am not sure that this possible but I have I two splitted panes while using tmux inside iTerm2 and I am using emacs daemon. I am using iTerm's keybinding to switch between tabs.
One one of them emacs ...
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How do I auto save evil buffers for specific file types?
I'm a new Doom Emacs user that can't get used to having to save files manually.
I found a way to auto save evil buffers, but the problem with this approach is that I'm not able step out of vterm (an ...
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Creating backup and auto-save files that are not hidden
I use the following code for backup and auto-save files:
(setq delete-old-versions -1)
(setq version-control t)
(setq vc-make-backup-files t)
(setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . "h:/...
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How to disable tramp autosave and backups, but keep other backups/autosave?
I'd like to disable autosaves and backups when using tramp, because I neither want to save stuff from remote machines nor stuff belonging to root in my backup/autosave directory. How to do that?
I ...
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How do I disable savehist-autosave in emacs?
Because my emacs editor has become completely unreliable / unusable due to the frequent freezes - I'd like to disable this. But I can't figure out how?
The actual issue is described by myself and ...
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How do I prevent the deletion of ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-PID-HOSTNAME~ files?
I recently upgraded to Emacs 26.3 from a much older version of Emacs (22.x). One of the many changes I've noticed with Emacs 26.3 is that the ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-PID-HOSTNAME~ files are ...
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don't allow modification if there is autosave
is it possible to disallow modification if there is an autosave version? I sometimes save a file only to find out that it has an autosave version but I am unable to recover because I saved.
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Emacs leaving behind files preceded with # despite lock files being disabled
I've noticed that emacs is leaving behind files in the directories of files I've edited with it. The files are named the same as the original, except the filename is preceeded and succeeded with a # ...
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Enable auto-save based on filename
How can I enable auto-save based on filename? I use a naming convention (a prefix to the filename) for my notes and I'd like to enable auto-save for those files.
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Getting call stack during call of a specific function
An automatic save is triggered (from some hook in some of my extensions) directly after a buffer is modified and I can't find the reason for it. The mode auto-save-mode is not enabled in the buffer ...
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Create many buffers, name properly, silently
I am trying to avoid using the desktop save mode 1 option in my .emacs file.
We sudo a shared service account, so my buffers may differ from my colleagues buffers.
I launch Emacs from GNU/Linux with ...
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How can backup-directory-alist be set to save in the files directory?
I want the backup files to be created in sub-directories of the files being edited, and I have created a function returns that directory.
(defun tempfilepath ()
(interactive)
(concat (file-name-...
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Emacs wont reopen my files from recover session
I was working in emacs when had a power outage, so my computer was knocked offline. After I got the computer back up, I launched emacs and tried to restore the last session. Emacs then said: "No ...
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Writing file when switching buffer
I'm using a rather stock Prelude emacs version with super-save disabled, but still whenever I change buffers using C-x o, whatever buffer I currently have focused writes to disk. I still want the auto-...
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spacemacs and "file name too long" error on auto-save
I reorganized some of the folders on my computer, in an attempt to get rid of old stuff and organize useful stuff. So with the new directory structure, I am getting all of these auto-save errors.
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change auto-save directory
I defined these lines in my .emacs initialization file to change the location for backup and auto-save files.
(defvar BACKDIR (expand-file-name "~/emacs_backup/"))
(setq backup-directory-alist `((".*"...
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Possible to save winner history winner-ring-alist in savehist or desktop-save to save across sessions
I added in the following command to my .emacs but it doesn't seem to work:
(add-to-list 'savehist-additional-variables 'winner-ring-alist)
Is there a way to get the winner-undo history to save ...
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How to automatically save buffer after each modification without using packages
I'm using Emacs and Windows 10 and I am fairly new to both Emacs and elisp (and I am not a programmer).
I'm looking for a way to automatically save a buffer immediately after any modification ...
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How do I prevent backups of scripts from being made executable?
If I edit an executable script, say foo.sh, then upon saving emacs makes the backup file foo.sh~. That's all well and good, but if the original file has the executable bit set, then so does the backup....
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Delete auto-save file when killing Emacs without saving buffer
When I have unsaved buffers and I kill Emacs with save-buffers-kill-terminal (C-x C-c) I'm asked whether to save each buffer. Is it possible to delete a buffer's auto-save data when I answer n?
I had ...
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auto-save is unreliable
I almost never manually save files; I rely on auto-save.
In the past few months I have noticed some of my edits mysteriously disappearing.
The disappearances seem to be related to Linux crashes (...
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Save an org-mode buffer when I clock in/out of a task
I'm using the clocking functionality quite extensively, and I built a number of tools (outside of Emacs) that will look for clocked-in tasks. The problem is that these tools will parse the file on ...
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autosave on shell buffers
How can I set things up so the buffer being used to run an inferior shell will be autosaved periodically to a file?
The file to save in could be named "shell-2018-01-22".
I thought this would be ...
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Tutorial Exercise - C-x C-s Save -- Write Protected issue in OSX
I'm making my way through the tutorial and have run into an issue when trying to do the exercise on saving a file:
Saving file /~TUTORIAL...
basic-save-buffer-2: Directory / write-protected
Auto-...
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Temporarily save modified buffers
I would like to achieve the following workflow:
When I open files to edit and close emacs, I want this changed files to be temporarily saved, so that I can very quickly close Emacs / move to other ...
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Keep auto-save files out of directory
I found different solutions for keeping auto-save files out of the directory where the original file is located on the internet, including
(defconst emacs-tmp-dir (format "%s/%s%s/" "/t" "emacs" (...
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How to set auto-save and backup path as subdirectory sibling of a given open file?
I am aware of How to place all auto-save files in a directory, but I cannot figure it out from Emacs manual how to save all auto-save versions and all backup copies of a given file in a subdirectory ...
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Prevent creation of ~ files
Emacs keeps pooping out random .extension~ files that are messing up my program. How do I prevent creation of these files?
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Change naming scheme for backup files
I'm putting all my backups in a directory:
(defvar saves-dir (expand-file-name "~/.saves/"))
(setq backup-directory-alist `((".*" . ,saves-dir)))
This creates annoying filenames with ! in them, such ...
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